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Utah's Best Poetry & Prose 2026.

Selected Winners of the Olive Woolley Burt and Typewriter Awards.

AWARD WINNING

Now available at Amazon

A collection of the year’s best fiction, poetry, and personal essays selected by the League of Utah Writers 2025 Writer of the Year David Rodeback.

 

THE THIRD MAN is my contribution to this anthology. It won a second place in the Olive Woolley Burt Awards and originally appeared in Twisted Tales. It's a story of broken friendships and deseprate survival, a story based on survivor testimony.

 

 

THE THIRD MAN in Utah's Best Poetry & Prose 2026
Genre: Speculative Ficiton
Words: 4,500 Words
Status: Now available at Amazon

Why Tie-Dye? I was told at my first Grateful Dead show that you wear tie-dye not for yourself but for your friends. You're welcome.

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